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TIL of the Football War (AKA The 100 Hours War) of 1969, fought between Honduras and El Salvador

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nWlZd TIL that the possibility of Black Holes was proposed in 1783 in a letter to the Royal Society
OGDBg TIL that the film Some Like It Hot was made while the Hays Code was still operating and the film was one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
7r6Zp TIL the sound produced by two blackholes colliding is referred to a chirp by scientists as it sounds like a slide whistle
R7Qg1 TIL of the SWAT World Challenge, where SWAT teams and special forces compete in armed drills. Since 2007, the second place all time score belongs to the US Office of Secure Transportation, the agency for guarding America's nukes. But beating them is Ocean Country NJ's SWAT team.
7rGQZ TIL of a disease known as 'popcorn lung.' A respiratory illness due to exposure to a chemical that flavors microwave popcorn. Before most companies removed this chemical, a man who ate two bags a day and inhaled the steam, sued a food company and was awarded $7 mil.